SEO / Content Writer Recruitment at Afribary

Afribary is an education technology company building and managing online libraries/databases for academic resources.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: SEO / Content Writer

Job Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• Afribary is building the biggest online academic library / platform for higher education in Africa where students can share/access study and research content with ease.
• We are looking for smart young, skilled content / SEO writers to work with us to achieve the following
  • Improve the domain authority of our flagship website to at least 50 by creating high quality content backlinks on carefully picked websites
  • Build out SEO optimised, keyword rich blog content to drive the overall traffic of our website by at least x3
• This is a 6 month internship that may result in a more permanent role.

Key Roles

• Brainstorm and implement an SEO / Content Marketing plan with management to grow traffic/users to the Afribary website significantly
• Identify potential, high quality blogs / websites in the education/career niche for guest posting and the kind of content they will accept
• Pitch the list of potential blogs/websites, create and get guest posts accepted on those sites with at least one quality backlink (get guest posts published on at least 3 high DA websites per week)
• Carry out extensive keyword research; write quality blog articles/content based on these keywords (at least 3 blog articles per week)
• Keep track of progress across relevant metrics – vol of content (blog & guest posts), backlinks achieved, DA, traffic
• Research, compile list of high DA academic websites/databases and conduct keyword research to develop list of research papers to be submitted to/published on these websites

Requirements / Skills

• Graduate of a recognised higher institution
• Practical experience as a content writer (samples of published work)
• Very good knowledge of concepts / skills such as on page SEO, keyword research, competitor research/analysis, back linking and creating long form quality content / articles
• Must have a good laptop and internet connection to work with
• Ability to research and create good quality content in the academic / career space